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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.
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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
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Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.
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Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.
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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
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Servants honor their master by their service.
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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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Do hurry and proclaim the concordat. Then castrate yourselves to keep from sinning.
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The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.
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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
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The real genres: good and bad.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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